The Big Interview: Scroobius Pip
Edinburgh Fringe, illegal downloads and rejecting Shakespeare: Chris Carr spends some time with Scroobius Pip… Over the last few years, Scroobius Pip has made a point of releasing special items on his birthday....
Stealing Sheep: Blueprint for Success
Prepare yourself for a weekend celebrating art, music, dance and performance across Liverpool. Getting proceedings underway with a bang, the Blueprint Festival welcomes indie-folk darlings, Stealing Sheep to the party… Tate Collective’s Sumuyya...
The Big Interview: Anton Newcombe
With one foot on stage ahead of a show in Dublin and with a Liverpool show this coming Saturday, The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s frontman Anton Newcombe talks to Joseph Viney about his affinity for...
In Pictures: Africa Oyé 2014
Pete Goodbody shares with us his photographic highlights from the UK’s largest, free African music festival… Africa Oyé attracted record crowds in Liverpool’s Sefton Park this year; partly because of the weather, but it...
Breathing New Life Into Experimental Practice — Immix Ensemble
Launching with Ex Easter Island Head and composer Joseph Hillyard, Jon Davies finds a new ensemble loaded with openness and charm… Although Liverpool’s performing music calendar can never be accused of a lack of...
No Lists, No Diaries, No Apps Required: Sounds From The Other City Festival
Activists? Techno in a parish church? Unpronounceable band names? Robert Cutforth considers the joys of Greater Manchester’s most bonkers festival… I have been to Salford exactly three times and always by accident. I suppose that’s...
Turning Drawing On Its Head: SPACE//SOUND
Maja Lorkowska takes a line for a walk with a group of innovative sound artists… Arts and music promoters Deep Hedonia and artist-focused free sheet Drawing Paper recently got together to bring us a...
Kraftwerk Uncovered: A Future Past
Nathan Richardson expects a tribute to Kraftwerk and instead discovers an evening of roaring, mesmeric experimentation… “What’s past is Prologue” — William Shakespeare. It is perhaps not much of an icebreaker when Icebreaker, the 12-piece...
“A near hallucinatory occurrence”: Dean Blunt at Blade Factory
Our live art critic C James Fagan witnesses this solo artist’s sensational (and terrifying) blend of music and performance art… Where does all this begin? At the invitation to write about the upcoming...